[LAU] Convert from WMA to ... ?

[Ken Restivo]

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On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:43:14PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 00:03 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > > On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:01:22AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > > > > I have a WMA file, yes only one, that I can play with Amarok.
> > > > > But, I want to convert it to OGG or WAV.  How can I do that?
> > > >
> > > > If mplayer ca play it, this might work:
> > > > mplayer -ao pcm input.wma -ao pcm:file=output.wav
> > > >
> > > > (at least it does for mp3)
> > >
> > > Is there anyway for mplayer to write OGG instead of WAV?  
> 
> even if it could, you don't want to trancode from one lossy,
> perceptually-based compression technique to another. the result is
> awful.
> 

And often necessary.

I was surprised to discover how difficult it is for ordinary people to install a Vorbis CODEC, or anything, for that matter.

I have to transcode my ogg's all the time to mp3 format so that people can actually listen to it.

- -ken
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